Buckle



(No Model.)

, R. L. BARNEY.

BUCKLE. No. 374,033. Patented Nov. 29, 1887.

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LESTER BARNEY, OF QWANTON, VERMONT.

BUCKLE.-

sPncIPIcA'TIoN forming part of Letters Patent No. 374,033, dated November 29, 1887. Application filed February 25, 1887. Serial No. 228,849. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern/.2

3e it known that I, R. LESTER BARNEY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Swanton, in the county of Franklin and State of Vermont, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Buckles; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters orfigures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

' Figurel of the drawings is a representation of this invention, and is a front view of the buckle. Fig. 2 is a vertical section through the buckle, with the webbing in place. Fig. 3 shows the wire partly bent. Figs. 4., 5, 6, ,7 and 8 are modifications.

My invention relates to suspenderbuckles; and it consists in the novel construction of the same, hereinafter described and claimed.

. Referring by letter to the ccompanying drawings, A designates myjdfigoved buckle, which is formed from a single piece of wire, which is preferably bent. first at 1 2 to form the parallel arms'B O. The arms 13 O are then bent inwardly at 3 4 to form the half-bars D E of the buckle-frame: The wire is then bent upwardly at 5 6 and then outwardly along the halfbars D Eto form the upper half-bars, F G. The wire is again bent at 7 8 upwardly in line with the portions H I, previously forming parts of the arms B O, to complete the vertical sides or ends of the buckle-frame. The wire is then bent at 9 10 inwardly and parallel with the half-barsF G, the ends of the wire meeting at the vertical middle line of the buckle-frame.- The meeting ends of the wire are preferably cut off, in the first instance, on bevel lines to give the ends points P, suitable for engaging the webbing of the suspender. The ends of the wire are then bent downwardly and outwardly and are deflected slightly toward the rear or back from the buckle-frame, leaving a space, Z,between them, so that they will preferably engage the outer face of the webbing when the latter is in place.

In forming the sectional cross-bar the halfbarsare so bent as to provide contacting points near their outer curves as well as at their inner ends, thereby giving great stability to said cross-bar.

The half-bars D E and F G form practically a sectional middle bar or attaching-bar of the buckle.

To the middle bar or sectional cross-bar one end of the-webbing is secured, preferably by stitches. The webbing W extends down or depends below the buckle, and the free-end. of the webbing is brought up and passed behind the lower bar or side of the buckle, thence up over the attached end of the webbing, and

thence under the points or spurs P of the buckle and up over the shoulder when the suspenders are worn. buckle the suspender-ends are passed through the loop formed by the depending portion of the webbing. I have, however, made provision in this form of buckle for attaching the suspender-ends to the buckle.

In Fig. 4. I have shown an integral spiral coil, Q, formed in the lower bar of the buckle, through which coil I pass the suspender-ends R, which are made-of a single piece of material, and permit them to hang down in the ordinary manner.

In Fig. 5 I have made a triangular-shape integral depending eye or loop, S, by which I support the Suspender-ends.

In Fig. 6 I have provided an integral hook, T, which depends from the lower bar of-the buckle-frame, and have secured the suspenderends in a metal or other clasp provided with an eye, U, which engages the hook T.

'In Fig. 7 I have attached the clasp V for the Suspender-ends directly to the sectional middle bar of the buckle, and in Fig. 8 Ihave secured the suspender-ends directly to the sectional middle bar of the buckle. In these last two figures the views are from the rear of the buckle.

I am aware that buckles have been made of a single piece of wire having a middle bar formed of the wire bent inwardly from each side to the center and touching and having outer engaging points bent backwardly, and also that buckles'have been made of a single In this form of the piece of wire with the central bars bent so as to rest upon each other. Thesefeatures, however, I do not claim, broadly.

Having described my invention, what I 5 claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

The herein-described buckle-frame, formed ofa single piece of bent wire, having the central 1oopbars, D F and E G, the inward and l rearwardly inclined points or spurs I, and I0 integral spiral coil Q, formed in the lower bar of the buckle, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

R. LESTER BARNEY.

Witnesses:

THEO. MUNGEN, PHILIP G. MASI. 

